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residential school

school system, Canada
Also known as: Canadian Indian residential school system, IRS system, Indian Residential Schools(Show More)
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residential school, school that was part of a Canadian government-sponsored system created and administered by various Christian churches between 1883 and 1996 with the intentions of assimilating Indigenous children to Western culture and expunging Indigenous cultures and languages. Some 150,000 First Nations, Métis, and Inuit children were forcibly taken from their homes to attend residential schools. Not only were Indigenous children physically and sexually abused at the schools, but also thousands of them died and...

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